1995 American post-apocalyptic action film, directed by Kevin Reynolds Starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper and Jeanne Tripplehorn

Waterworld was the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time of its release on July 28, 1995. For the uninitiated, it's a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-on-water epic starring Kevin Costner as a ruggedly stylish man-fish with webbed feet and gills behind his ears, for which more money was invested than in the entire Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies combined. Shot primarily off the coast of Hawaii in a massive enclosed set, the production was a highly publicized disaster. Costner and director Kevin Reynolds quarreled often, one of the principal set-pieces sank after a storm and production ultimately ran $72 million over its initial $100 million budget.

"...one of the most memorably bizarre, confusing and, frankly, spectacular films of the past 25 years? Kevin Costner's gills cannot be forgotten." - Ryan Bort, Newsweek